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speed-trap e-Gov intelligence to be used by Salford City Council & South Tyneside Council to provide quantitative analysis about their how each of their websites are being used & to provide insight for improving website user’s experiences

Newbury, Berkshire, July 5th, 2005 &#61485; speed-trap Limited announced today that South Tyneside Council and Salford City Council have each selected and are implementing “e-Gov intelligence”, speed-trap’s Government sector e-business intelligence product, for use upon their websites. The implementations follow on from a study of a number of Local Authority websites by Socitm (the Society of Information Technology Management), as part of their Better Connected 2005, Socitm Insight study published in March.

e-Gov intelligence will be used to provide quantitative and qualitative analysis of how people are using the South Tyneside Council and Salford City Council websites and to provide an insight into how the user experience could be improved in the future. Malcolm Duckett, VP Marketing for speed-trap, commented: “These are exciting deployments for speed-trap’s e-government solution which focuses specifically upon helping Local Government web sites meet the targets as defined under the Efficiency Review. We’ve built a specific solution aimed directly at this sector with pricing and service options tailored for the local government market place. The results obtained via the work we initially did with Socitm, are now being confirmed by the enthusiastic take up and deployment by innovative local authorities at sites including Salford and South Tyneside”.

Commenting upon selecting speed-trap’s e-Gov intelligence solution, Roger Abbott, Web and Publishing Team Leader at South Tyneside Council said: “In order to continuously improve our websites, and ensure visitors return on a regular basis, we need to understand how people are using the site in practice together with the problems they are facing. speed-trap e-Gov intelligence provides such a mechanism for objective analysis of usability without the need for visitors to answer surveys. Hence, we can begin to understand the website behaviour of not only the enthusiastic website users prepared to give us their views, but also those casual, often inexperienced users.” Abbott elaborated: “Although we can test response times from web servers, the actual response time for the visitor is dependent on numerous other factors such as the speed of their own computer, the speed of their line, peak internet times and so on. With speed-trap e-Gov intelligence, however, we can test the response times, which each user is really experiencing as they move around the website. This provides a powerful mechanism by which to build a more complete picture of the overall user experience.”

speed-trap’s provides e-business intelligence solutions across a wide spectrum of both public and private organisations delivering a total view of user experience and behaviour, enabling marketing, operations and management executives of on-line enterprises to view, measure and manage every facet of their on-line presence and applications.

The solutions’ unique strength is their ability to record every aspect of every on-line visitor’s experience and actions in a secure and privacy-conscious way. Armed with this unique dataset, and using speed-trap’s analysis and visualisation tools, users gain a new insight, enabling them to optimise their on-line presence and make bottom-line improvements to their business.

About speed-trap
speed-trap is the e-business intelligence company. The company provides technology and solutions that provide accurate, real-time and complete data on the interactions between customers and web sites. Moving beyond traditional Web Analytics speed-trap not only provides statistical and business information on activity in the site, but uses the in-depth data provided by its Dynamic Collection™ Technology to give a unique view of visitor experience and customer journeys providing valuable insights into how well on-line assets are meeting objectives.
speed-trap’s solutions are being used by businesses to drive and monitor their on-line marketing activity including the monitoring, measurement and management of their on-line business. This includes applications such as campaign management, customer segmentation, customer experience monitoring and performance measurement. Other customers are using the technology to monitor key business metrics and drive real-time content management systems.
speed-trap was founded in January 2000 and is based in the UK with headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire. See www.speed-trap.com for further information.
About Dynamic Collection™
speed-trap’s unique and patented data gathering technology delivers two benefits to speed-trap’s clients. Firstly, it can be fully deployed in less time than any other solution – avoiding costly tagging processes, or complex web server and content management system integration. Secondly, it provides insight and data, which is being used by on-line organisations to drive and monitor their on-line marketing activity including the monitoring, measurement and management of their on-line business. This includes applications such as campaign management, customer segmentation, customer experience monitoring and performance measurement. Other customers are using the technology to monitor key business metrics and drive real-time, anonymous personalisation and content management systems.